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Yankee
Hill
Brickyard
Fire
Friday,
October
13,
1933,
a
fire
destroyed
a
storage
building
and
a
large
amount
of
equipment
at
the
Yankee
Hill
Brick
Company.
The
Yankee
Hill
Brick
Company
is
located
south
of
Pioneers
Park.
Eldon
Beahr,
who
lived
near
the
plant,
was
the
first
to
see
the
blaze. He
said
that
the
fire
apparently
started
inside
the
building
near
the
center.
The
only
cause
was
believed
to
be
from
spontaneous
combustion
as
there
was
some
rubbish
in
the
building.
A
crowd
gathered
to
watch
the
flames.
They
were
kept
a
safe
distance
from
the
buildings
because
of
the
danger
of
an
explosion
of
the
fifty
or
sixty
pounds
of
dynamite
and
fuse
caps
that
were
stored
there.
Fortunately
the
dynamite
never
exploded.
Tools,
electric
and
gasoline
motors,
barrels
of
oil
and
gasoline,
and
wooden
kiln
forms
were
stored
in
the
building.
The
building
measured
thirty
by
ninety
feet.
The
roof
of
the
building,
constructed
of
galvanized
tin
and
wood,
caved
in
completely.
Firemen
were
forced
to
fight
the
blaze
without
a
water
line. Because
of
the
wooden
forms
and
frame
working
as
fuel,
the
fire
was
still
burning
early
the
next
morning.
J.
A.
Collins,
superintendent
of
the
plant,
said
the
damage
totaled
about
$4,000.
Source: Nebraska
State
Journal,
Saturday,
October
14,
1933,
page
1,
column
4.
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